CLASS PROFILE - University of Rochester

CLASS PROFILE - MEDICAL CLASS OF 2023

The class profile is a Rochester tradition. It has a 2-fold purpose.

Primarily it is an effort to help you ¡°connect¡± with each other, especially

during this first week of medical school when everything is new - exciting

but clearly daunting. Secondly, it is a pause where we all can marvel at the

accomplishments, potential and talent for the future of medicine sitting in

front of us today.

This year we had approximately 5800 applications from AMCAS that

were reviewed. Of the completed applications, 2600 were from female

applicants, 2800 were from male applicants and 20 were from selfdisclosed, non-conforming gender applicants. Our 36-person admissions

committee interviewed 674 of these almost 6000 applicants, for 104 places

in the class. Your class includes 50 women, 53 men, and 1 nonbinary

student. The average age of your class is 23.95 years (.95=342 days) and

50% of your class is 24 years old or older. And while age is irrelevant to

your progress and potential, the spread in years is 21 to 34. This is in

concordance with national trends.

Forty-three of you identify as non-Caucasian and 21 of you are

considered historically underrepresented in medicine. All of you are citizens

or permanent residents of the United States, but 17 of you were born

outside of the mainland United States including China, Korea, Canada,

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Belarus, Ghana, Albania, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Switzerland

and the Ukraine. You speak an unbelievable number of languages:

Spanish, French, Italian, Urdu, Hindi, Mandarin, Taiwanese, Cantonese,

Serbo Croatian, and Russian to just start off the list

Twenty-nine members of your class are New York state residents, 10

hail from MA, 8 each from CA and NJ, 7 from PA, 4 each from MD and TX,

3 each from CT, IL, MI, VA, WA and 2 each from FL, GA, KY, MO and OH.

Twenty-five different states of legal residents are represented in your class,

and other states of residence include: HI, KS, LA, MN, NH, UT, and WI.

About 26% of you majored in Biology or some variation of that major,

12 of you majored in Neuroscience, 8 in Public or Global Health, 8 in

Psychology, 10 in Biochemistry, 6 in Chemistry, 4 in the Engineering fields.

Three each majored in Anthropology, and Microbiology. Two each majored

in Economics, English, Psychology, Business, Finance, Statistics, and

Journalism, and 1 each majored in Music, Math, Physics, Computer

Science, History, Sociology Chinese and Theater Arts. Five of you have

Master¡¯s degrees including Public Health, Human Nutrition, Global

Development, Molecular Genetics and Chemistry. Two of you have

doctoral degrees ¨C one in Chemistry and one in Pharmacology.

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Among our special matriculation programs, 7 of you entered under our Bryn

Mawr affiliation, 1 from our Johns Hopkins affiliation, and 2 Associated

Medical Schools of New York Post-Baccalaureate programs. Eleven are

part of our 8-year Rochester Early Medical Scholars Baccalaureate/MD

Program, 10 are part of our Early Assurance Program, 2 join from our joint

MD-MBA and 6 remarkable young women and men join as future clinician

scientists in our 8-year, NIH funded MD/PhD, Medical Scientist Training

Program.

You¡¯ve attended 54 different colleges and universities as

undergraduates. In addition to the 19 students from Rochester; 6 each

attended Cornell and Princeton; 4 each from Brigham Young University and

Xavier of Louisiana, 3 each from Columbia, Johns Hopkins, and UCLA. 2

each from CUNY City College, Duke, Grand Valley State, Harvard, Juniata

College, New York Univ, Rochester Institute of Technology, Univ. of Notre

Dame, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Univ. of Toronto, Washington U in St. Louis,

and Wesleyan Univ. 1 each attended Amherst, Brown, CA Institute

Technology, Carleton, Carnegie Mellon, Hunter, Case Western Reserve,

Dartmouth, Hamilton, Holy Cross, John Carroll Univ, Manhattan College,

McGill Univ, Nazareth College, Northeastern, Oberlin, Santa Clara Univ,

Smith, Spelman, Binghamton, Swarthmore, Truman State, Tufts, Chicago,

Florida, Maryland-Baltimore, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Washington, Wisconsin,

Vanderbilt, Vassar, and last but not least¡­Villanova. Sadly, no one from

UC Berkeley ¨C go bears!

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Most of you graduated with Latin Honors, including a large number who

were Summa or Magna Cum Laude. Additionally, many in your class

graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi and/or with

departmental or university honors. The awards that you have collectively

won is a true testament to your academic prowess and we are humbled

before your accomplishments. But in addition to these acknowledged

awards, we know that you have had even more accomplishments that don¡¯t

come with a certificate.

Your desire to deeply and meaningfully work in communities around you

has led you to work in AmeriCorps, Teach for America and as Fulbright

awardees. One of you served in the Peace Corps for 2 years working in

rural villages in Tanzania improving the ecology of the community. In

addition to your rich personal experiences globally, 40% of you worked or

learned in an overseas setting. From Haiti to Nepal, Ecuador to Uganda,

Peru, Guatemala and Mexico to Beijing, you have been impacted by what

life looks like outside the confines of your hometowns and you are better for

it. The University of Rochester celebrates this diversity and we hope an

equal or greater number of you continue your global reach in this phase of

your transformation.

In order to be accepted to this school, it is a must that you worked outside

your comfort zones; that you have shown heart and passion far surpassing

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others. Many of you have worked with the agencies in our inner cities, tribal

reservations, rural settings and international sites, trying to reach those

who suffer some of the greatest disparities in health care in our world. All

of you have volunteered in various outreach programs, alternative summer

breaks and health care brigades and other college or religious sponsored

organizations, to make an impact on health and wellness of communities.

If there is a hospital unit or service, someone in this room has volunteered

in it and more importantly, LOVED working within it. The Class of 2023 has

reached out to those in need, regardless of the inconvenience, distance or

personal hardship encountered.

You have unique interests and accomplishments as well. To name a

few, you have designed and implemented drone delivery of medications on

Navajo reservations, you have built low income housing from recycled

plastics, you have been foster parents, juvenile detention counselors, and

immigration center volunteers, and you have worked to revitalize the

Mohawk language. You have designed curriculum, robots and programs all

to improve the lives of those around you. That creative and innovative

spark is the essence of how progress is made. In your future, make time to

do the deep work it takes to be creative. The University of Rochester is

fertile soil for your ideas to take root, don¡¯t lose the opportunity to harness

the power of your class¡¯s talents and skills to be collaborative innovators.

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